I have a question about the Post-Production (Visual Quality) part. Excuse me if I sound like an idiot, but is "Temporal Smoothing" supposed to be the remedy for Dot Crawl, too? Because I tried it on some of my footage and it doesn't fix the dot crawl problem at all.

Right after Temporal Smoothing comes the part on removing Rainbows, then sharpening and adjusting colors... it seems like "5) Dot Crawl" got kinda skipped. Is the Dot Crawl remedy something you still plan on putting in, or am I missing something here ?

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

As far as I can tell, there really isn't any good, easy way to get rid of dot crawl. I remember once asking about this when I was working with CPM's Angel Sanctuary R1 release (which has some pretty bad dot crawl and rainbowing throughout), and being told as much.

You might want to check out Lindsey Dubb's <a href="http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/files/guavacomb_25_dll_20030801.zip">GuavaComb plugin</a> (or, <a href="http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/files/guavacomb_20_dll_20021106.zip">here's the version for AVISynth 2.0.x</a>), as it's supposed to be able to handle dot crawl... but good luck finding settings that work well without introducing artifacting on scene changes.

Angry Angel wrote:Right after Temporal Smoothing comes the part on removing Rainbows, then sharpening and adjusting colors... it seems like "5) Dot Crawl" got kinda skipped. Is the Dot Crawl remedy something you still plan on putting in, or am I missing something here ?

Oh, and I just love how the last thing it says before putting everything together is "The last thing I want to show you is how to use the Levels filter........." and then it doesn't say anything about it.

a Question about 23.976fps to 24 and back: the "old" guise says to use abcavi tag editor, and the new guide doesnt have that page yet, so i was wondering if thats still the best way to get 24FPS -> 23.976FPS conversion, of should i use avisynth?

Confusion on the MPEG-1 encoding section (but this is dated 2002, so I'm surprised someone didn't catch it sooner):

<a href=http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtechbeta/mpeg1.html>The MPEG-1 page</a> wrote:If you want a <b>40MB</b> file, take <b>41680</b>, divide it by the # of seconds in your video, subtract 224 (or whatever bitrate you've got for your audio) and that's what you should put for your average bitrate.

The problem is that
40 * 1024 = 40960

though this isn't completely understandable, when you consider that
40 * 10<b>42</b> = 41680